On March 16, 2007, director James Wan and writer Leigh Whannell released Dead Silence in theaters, hot off the heels of their smash 2004 low-budget horror film Saw. Upon its release, Dead Silence was pretty much dead in the water, grossing an abysmal $22 million worldwide off a $20 million budget, and earning a rotten 20% on Rotten Tomatoes. On August 31, 2011, Whannell took his blog, The Word in the Stone, and wrote a beyond-frank post entitled "Dud Silence: The Hellish Experience Of Making A Bad Horror Film." In case that doesn't clue you in on …

The original is a 2007 cult horror favorite from director James Wan (Aquaman) but why did a planned Dead Silence 2 never happen?